“Learn to prompt.” Palmer Luckey Whenever a new technology emerges, pundits and even tech leaders jump at the opportunity to predict what this means the new future will look like. Virtual reality was thought to be the next major computing platform, while blockchain was supposed to underpin “Web 3.0.” Artificial Intelligence or “AI,” feels like…
Converging Perspectives: 5 Shared Insights from Sam Altman and Alexandr Wang
When a highly successful person shares their personal reflections, I read it. When another highly successful person also share their reflections and they share some of the same points, I really try to remember those the most. Below are overlapping themes from Sam Altman’s “What I Wish Someone Told Me” and Alexandr Wang’s “What I…
You Are Not a Lottery Ticket: One Novel Principle Shared by Several AI Leaders
My favorite chapter from Peter Thiel’s classic Zero to One is chapter 6, ‘You Are Not a Lottery Ticket.’ The basic message of the chapter is that Thiel says in business and life, we tend to overestimate the role luck plays in our lives and underestimate the power of our own planning. He points to…
Stop and Smell the Roses
“I felt like I didn’t enjoy my younger years the way I should have.”